Life moves slower in Laos, but the pace is quickening and the 'land of a million elephants' is increasingly in the clutches ...

Colourful rectangular wooden boats carrying tourists are chugging along at a leisurely pace across the Mekong River. The atmosphere is idyllic, disturbed only by the monotonous throbbing of the boats' ...

VIENTIANE, Oct 5 (The Vientiane Times/ANN): Buddhists across the country spent two days taking part in colourful festivities to mark the end of Buddhism lent or Ork Phan Sa which concluded the ...

The Lao-China Railway, which runs from Vientiane, the capital of Laos ... a UNESCO World Heritage Site with dozens of elaborate Buddhist temples and elegant French colonial villas; and to Vang ...

In a land area of about 74,195 square kilometers, the diocesan territory covers Bolikhamxai, Houaphan, Vientiane and Xiangkhoang ... middle of the 13th century the Lao tribes who had migrated from ...